Aspects of the collocational analysis of meaning with special reference to some Biblical Hebrew anatomical idioms

Although the biblical data presented can be properly assessed only by a Hebraist/Old Testament exegete, I have attempted to make the work a little more accessible to linguistic scientists without specialization in Hebrew through provision of English glosses of Hebrew passages (rarely of more than a biblical verse in length). Typically these glosses are from NEB, although where NEB's rendering does not closely match the Hebrew sequence (e.g., if NEB omits certain Hebrew phrases because they would be redundant or cumbersome in English, or adopts substantial emendations of NT, or is, in my opinion, erroneous in respect of a particular translation) I have utilized JB, or, occasionally, AV. Italicized sequences (narking expressions not directly expressed in the Hebrew original) in AV (and in the translation of Rash!) are not thus distinguished in my quotations, and I have used 'Lord' for AV and NEB 'LORD'. NEB has been chosen as the primary source because at a semantic, if not a stylistic, level it provides an 'idiomatic' translation, and because its emendations are easy to trace (through Brockington's work). The few tines that I wish to make a translation point particularly strongly or where I feel none of the forementioned translations to be adequate I provide my own glosses. Such renderings, unlike those quoted from other sources, are not accompanied by a citation of source. Within glosses words representing a collocation or other expression being discussed are capitalized. BHK/S is used as the source of quotations from the Hebrew Bible, although its division of cola is not displayed; the caesura (athnach) is sometimes indicated by the use of a new line, or, if only one line of text is displayed, by a double space within this line. In 'citation-forms' of Hebrew text, we utilize a 'plene' orthography. Chapter and verse references are always to the Hebrew Bible. ..

Pharmacological action of atropine on cardiac muscle

Includes 17 folded tablesPhotographs pasted inTypescriptM.A. University of Missouri 1911Does Atropine influence the cardiac rhythm and the power of the heart's contractions by direct action on its muscular tissue, and if so, to what extent and under what conditions? It is my purpose therefore in this work to determine the pharmacological action of atropine on cardiac muscle, using the heart strip in place of the whole heart, where one would obtain both the nervous and muscular effects.Includes bibliographical reference

Reflective writing in prisons: Rehabilitation and the power of stories and connections

The United States has the highest rate of incarceration in the world. Even though the rate of crime is dropping, incarceration rates remain fairly steady. What’s more, recidivism (i.e., re-offending after conviction for other crimes) is also very high in the US. If offenders continue to offend, even after completing their sentences in a correctional system designed to address their underlying criminal activity, what is the point of having such a system? Can the system be made more accountable and better? Have we considered all the options for criminal reform? This article explores these questions using effective rehabilitation principles to inquire into writing programs in prison. The need for more reflective, collaborative writing programs in prisons is stressed, where a strong alignment between the outcomes of these writing programs and the purported goals of prison rehabilitation is found and emphasized. In the fall of 2020, Sandeep intends to begin his junior year at the University of Richmond. He is double majoring in Political Science and Economics. Author\u27s note The inspiration for the following essay came from one of my First Year Seminar courses at the University of Richmond. Part of the course experience involved participating in a peer storytelling project with the incarcerated youth of the Bon Air Juvenile Correctional Center in Richmond, VA. This experience was the first time I really began to immerse myself into the lives of those who live behind bars. Driven by the power of these stories and the relationships I built there, I decided to conduct a review of prison literature and rehabilitation programs in the country. As I delved deeper into the literature, I began to find gaps and other realities of the U.S incarceration system. As part of my course, I was also introduced to the work of David Coogan and the prison writers that he worked with in his writing project. Drawing connections between his work, my own experience, and prison rehabilitation literature, the initial versions of this essay came into being. The goal at that time was to show how writing programs in prison help transform prisoners and are an effective new model for our corrections system. However, after months of re-thinking, peer reviews and editing, the purpose of this essay has evolved beyond suggesting writing programs as a solution to our corrections dilemma. I’ve come to realize the complexities of the corrections system where instead of just trying to “change” the people on the inside, I’ve found that more focus needs to be given in making their voices heard. In this final version of my essay, I stress that we need to give more control and autonomy to those on the inside, allowing them to shape their own narratives and write their own stories. In emphasizing this need, my essay attempts to show how creative expression frameworks like writing programs work to help address exactly that. Over the course of writing this essay, I’ve also learnt the importance of language when addressing those on the inside and the othering effect that words like inmate and prisoner have. These words in of itself have a negative connotation attached to them and I’ve realized that one cannot begin to make lives on the inside better without actually humanizing their lives first. Thus, in the second half of the essay where I discuss the empowering nature of the reflective writing model like Coogan’s and the one I propose, I’ve made an active effort to shift the terminology from the word inmate to people, participants, and writers to illustrate this point. My hope is that this essay begins to start the much-needed conversation in these areas. Lastly, I would like to express my thanks and gratitude to Dr. Sylvia Gale at the University of Richmond without whose mentorship and encouragement, this essay would have not been possible. I would also like to thank David Coogan and the other authors of Writing Our Way Out: Memoirs from Jail for inspiring me through their work and testimonies to make this essay a reality

The morphology of central Shona : with prefatory chapters on the phonetics and phonology

The following work consists of a study of the morphology of some of the Central Shona dialect-groups, with two prefatory chapters which deal with Central Shona phonetics and phonology. Of the Central Shona dialect-groups I have taken Zezuru as my standpoint. It is true that the main differences between the dialect-groups lie in phonetics and vocabulary and not in morphology; nevertheless the work has a Zezuru slant to it while applying very largely to the Karanga and Manyika dialect-groups as well. I think I may claim to present here a Central Shona morphology. Where special forms exist peculiar to a single dialect-group or to a single dialect, I have indicated their incidence. For my Zezuru information I have relied, in the main, on the Shawasha and Mbire dialects. The Karanga which I present is that of Govera, (e.g. the form found in Mrs. C.S. Louw's Manual of Chikaranga) with some Mari which is presented as an extreme form of Karanga. The Manyika presented is that of the Unyama and Guta dialects. I have not used Karombe which is termed by Professor Doke the peak form of Manyika

Influencing child care social work: the curiosity of an experienced practitioner

The context statement required for the Professional Doctorate by Public Works at the University of Middlesex is a personal reflection on professional development expressed in selected public works as well as other artefacts, values, beliefs and ideas. How to structure and write the context statement was a challenge, frustrating at first while I developed a structure; frustration gave way to pleasure as I began to see how the context statement acted as the container from which emerged my public works. During my struggle to develop an approach to writing the context statement, my Study Supervisor, Dr David Adams, posed a question to me, he invited me to consider how I would answer the following question, “What is the question to which your life’s work is the answer?” At first the answer seemed obvious; how to help troubled children. The more I thought about it, the more I realised that in meeting children’s needs I’ve also been meeting my own needs, thus I was reminded of Palmer’s question, (Palmer, 2000 p5), “Who am I, what is my nature?”. The setting and area of work that has given me opportunity to express myself and that gave rise to the public works listed later in the context statement is that of residential childcare in Northern Ireland. Health and Social Care in Northern Ireland is delivered as an integrated service. The geographical area is serviced by five Health and Social Care Trusts that are in turn responsible to the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety (DHSSPS). Each Trust manages a range of services, that include social work and social care. The Health and Social Care Board (HSCB), acts as commissioner and works with the five Trusts to assess the need for services. In October 2017 there were 45 children’s residential homes in NI with 269 children resident (Department of Health, 2017). I have accumulated over 40 years’ experience in the field of childcare social work, specifically in residential care and in the past five years, in foster care. During that time, I have sought to inform my work with relevant knowledge. I agree with Holmes, who, with reference to psychoanalysis points out that ‘psycho-analytic virtue does not lie in the number of theories the psychoanalyst can command but the minimum number with which he can meet any contingency,’ (Holmes, 2006, p 556). This context statement represents a long held personal ambition, namely, to give expression to that knowledge base in a coherent manner, not as an end, but as preparation for further work of potential use to others committed to improving children’s experience. I believe that the listed public works, as well as other activities illustrate that over time my role, as well as working directly with children, their carers, and other professionals has included that of theory translator. Thus, a dominant feature in my public works includes interpreting and applying knowledge to the science and art of caring for troubled children. Table 1 lists specific public works that I have selected for scrutiny. These public works reflect growth in my development and mark a professional shift from a preference for clinical / technical skills as evidenced in PW 2 to a relational approach as evidenced in all my other public works. The penultimate section of this context statement is set out as a conceptual integration where I assemble the essential core concepts and practices that have come to inform my work and that I believe are essential elements in assisting children to recover from some of the harsh and damaging realities of life that they have encountered. Later in the text that follows, I explain how, once I located myself in the field of child care work, the task of understanding and responding to the needs of the children and young people I helped care for, piqued my curiosity and desire to learn; I set out on a knowledge quest to better understand the needs of these children and for ideas about how to apply that knowledge in ways that would be beneficial to them. The knowledge quest led to a traditional PhD registration that I had to abandon at close to the halfway point because of illness. Giving up the PhD always felt like unfinished business thus this route to the higher degree with Middlesex University was a welcome discovery

Immigration, Integration and Ingestion: The Role of Food and Drink in Transnational Experience for North African Muslim Immigrants in Paris and Montréal

This dissertation is motivated by two research questions: (1) how can food act as a means of reimagining, recreating, reaffirming, and expressing, sometimes complicated and contested identities for minority religious immigrant communities in highly secular contexts? (2) What impact does the context of reception, particularly the host society’s unique and complex history and interaction with colonialism, immigration, secularism, and nationalism, have on these identity negotiations? To examine these questions, I conducted a comparative ethnographic study of the foodways of North African Muslim immigrants in Paris, France, and Montréal, Canada, in 2012-13. The results presented here show that food is often the most important symbol of identity engaged by my informants. By choosing which religious/cultural food practices to continue and which ones to alter, by choosing to label them in precise ways, by relegating these practices to specific places and times, my informants reveal the complex and varied ways that Muslims negotiate their identities in transnational context. In settings such as Paris and Montréal, where outward/public signs of religiosity can be seen as problematic, and food culture is central to national identity, I argue that these kinds of actions take on particular importance for immigrants living in these cities. In line with scholarship in religion and migration, I show how reception directly influences the practices and identities of its immigrant communities. While the fear may be that by maintaining or even increasing practices that indicate difference, that highlight the “homeland” side of one’s transnational identity, immigrants may not integrate fully into the host culture, my research shows the exact opposite effect. In Canada, within multi- and inter-cultural contexts my Montréal informants felt more Canadian or had a greater desire to “be Canadian,” and on the whole felt free to express and engage their individual identities, whether religious, ethnic or cultural, In France, the opposite was true. I use food as the lens to reveal that France’s universalistic and assimilationist immigration policies undermine its efforts to emphasize equality

A Conversation with Chris Heyde

Born in Sydney, Australia, on April 20, 1939, Chris Heyde shifted his interest from sport to mathematics thanks to inspiration from a schoolteacher. After earning an M.Sc. degree from the University of Sydney and a Ph.D. from the Australian National University (ANU), he began his academic career in the United States at Michigan State University, and then in the United Kingdom at the University of Sheffield and the University of Manchester. In 1968, Chris moved back to Australia to teach at ANU until 1975, when he joined CSIRO, where he was Acting Chief of the Division of Mathematics and Statistics. From 1983 to 1986, he was a Professor and Chairman of the Department of Statistics at the University of Melbourne. Chris then returned to ANU to become the Head of the Statistics Department, and later the Foundation Dean of the School of Mathematical Sciences (now the Mathematical Sciences Institute). Since 1993, he has also spent one semester each year teaching at the Department of Statistics, Columbia University, and has been the director of the Center for Applied Probability at Columbia University since its creation in 1993. Chris has been honored worldwide for his contributions in probability, statistics and the history of statistics. He is a Fellow of the International Statistical Institute and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, and he is one of three people to be a member of both the Australian Academy of Science and the Australian Academy of Social Sciences. In 2003, he received the Order of Australia from the Australian government. He has been awarded the Pitman Medal and the Hannan Medal. Chris was conferred a D.Sc. honoris causa by University of Sydney in 1998. Chris has been very active in serving the statistical community, including as the Vice President of the International Statistical Institute, President of the Bernoulli Society and Vice President of the Australian Mathematical Society. He has served on numerous editorial boards, most notably as Editor of Stochastic Processes and Their Applications from 1983 to 1989, and as Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Applied Probability and Advances in Applied Probability since 1990.Comment: Published at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/088342306000000088 in the Statistical Science (http://www.imstat.org/sts/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org